Fact of the day

At the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Fritz Thiedemann - who had commanded a German cavalry unit during World War Two before being captured towards the end and interned in a Russian prison camp - created a unique piece of history. The farmer's son earned bronze medals in both individual show jumping and team dressage to become the only rider in Olympic history to win medals in two equestrian disciplines at the same Games. He went on to gold medals in team jumping at the 1956 Olympics, when the equestrian events were held in Stockholm, and Rome 1960. The Thiedemann rein is named after him.

Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah will be put forward by the Kuwait Football Association (KFA) as a candidate for a two-year term as an Asian representatives on the FIFA Executive Committee, it has been confirmed following insidethegames' exclusive report yesterday he would be recommended.

FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke has revealed the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Guinea will be moved from January to June in light of plans to switch the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to November and December.

Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah, President of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) and one of the most influential figures in world sport, is set to be put forward for one of three positions for Asian representatives on the FIFA Executive Committee.

Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa has repeated his claim the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar will be held in November and December on the eve of a meeting where a date will be proposed.

The Tunisian Football Federation (FTF) has filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over threats from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to ban them from the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.

Samuel Bacharach will be one of the key speakers at The Academy in Lausanne in May where his theme will be leadership, and the skills necessary to realise results. But most importantly he will explain how it's not enough for leaders to just to come up with a great idea and that vision without organisation and execution is just hallucination. Mike Rowbottom reports.